by Emily | 19 Dec, 2016 | Local News, Photos
Wairarapa shops and towns feature in a new book of photographs by an award-winning author. Photographs taken in Featherston, Greytown and Carterton are included in The Shops, by writer Steve Braunias and photographer Peter Black. “The Wairarapa proved rich pickings...
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by Emily | 6 Dec, 2016 | Local News, Photos
It was a big day for Featherston on May 24, 1975, when South Featherston School celebrated its 75th Jubilee. As is the practice for school reunions official photographs were taken of the former pupils according to the decade in which they attended. The Times-Age has...
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by Emily | 6 Dec, 2016 | Local News, Photos
By Emily Norman Emily.norman@age.co.nz The journey into photography hasn’t been an easy one for Wairarapa’s Sean Herbert. It wasn’t until he was bedridden in hospital diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines, that he began to...
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by Emily | 5 Dec, 2016 | Local News, Photos
By Beckie Wilson beckie.wilson@age.co.nz The 19th annual Mauriceville Country fair was blessed with fine fair weather on Sunday. The Clarke Memorial Domain was packed with people out to enjoy a Sunday afternoon. And the combination of good music, great stalls and...
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by Emily | 28 Nov, 2016 | Local News, Photos
Hundreds lined the streets in Carterton at lunchtime on Saturday as scattered rain showers eased up in time for the town’s Christmas Parade, organised by Carterton Rotary Club. Businesses, clubs, schools, churches and others produced floats from lighthouses to...
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by Emily | 26 Nov, 2016 | Local News, Photos
By Jess Morris More than 100 people gathered in Masterton on Friday to take part in the ‘Walk a Mile In Her Shoes’ men’s march against violence towards women. The event, which coincided with White Ribbon day, featured the men of Masterton breaking in their best high...
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by Emily | 16 Nov, 2016 | Local News, Photos
By Chelsea Boyle chelsea.boyle@age.co.nz Parents, teachers, pupils and former pupils gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Wairarapa school in Masterton last Saturday. Principal Hohepa Campbell said it was special family-oriented...
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by Emily | 14 Nov, 2016 | Local News, Photos
By Chelsea Boyle chelsea.boyle@age.co.nz The littlest visitors at the Rathkeale College Christmas Fete enjoyed mini truck rides around the campus on Saturday. A two-carriage truck was driven by arguably the most knowledgeable tour guides – the Rathkeale College...
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